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Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed in five minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eyes still watering and head still throbbing, he drew his wand, careful not to disarrange the Cloak, and waited, breath held.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

“So your pelo loco, like clippings of grass, will not disarrange this house,” she says.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

The Queen had said that it was raining, and that if she went out in the rain she would soil her dress and disarrange her hair.

From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes

Mr. Kelly drew on his clothes carefully, so as not to disarrange the bandages of his wound, and, taking his shoes in his hand, crept down the stairs.

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

That unleashed force is plied most artfully here to create a portrait of how grief unhinges, disarranges and heightens everyday life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

A similar expression now and again disarranges the handsome, sardonic features of the title character of “Butley” in Lindsay Posner’s engaging revival at the Duchess Theater.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2011

When a stiff wind disarranges his lacquered locks, he looks panic-stricken, like a man who’s just seen his own ghost.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

That is not altogether good for a youngster; it disarranges his mind and puts him out of harmony with what is permanent.

From South Wind by Norman Douglas

An unskillful workman repairs the compass, or malice or stupidity disarranges it, the ship mistakes her course, the waves swallow a Caesar, and a new chapter is written in the history of a world.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

It doesn't take long to decide whether Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” is extraordinary or a disarranged travesty.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024

Those of us with brains long since disarranged from a lifelong soak in college football must adapt now.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022

For his solo work “Compression,” the choreographer Niall Jones has arranged, or disarranged, a small theater at Performance Space New York into this in-between state.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Gaiman, craggily charismatic in black denim, thick hair artfully disarranged, English accent undimmed by years in the US, has a touch of the Crowley himself.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2019

My spirits were so disarranged, my nerves so clamorous in their confusion, that no course of thought, speech, or action presented itself.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

The monkey, disarranging her palm-oiled coiffure, is soon to go to the States.

From Time Magazine Archive

She hops onto the bed beside me, disarranging my small pile of threadbare stuffed animals—a koala, a snake, a black cat—all beloved of my seven-year-old self.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

For a few days she was essentially somewhat restless, getting out of bed, disarranging her clothes, wandering about—all in a rather deliberate, aimless way, sometimes vaguely resistive, again with free movements.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy

Schmul became plainly confused, and raised his hand to his head, disarranging his skull cap which covered his long dishevelled hair.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons

She sank sobbing on her sister’s shoulder, sadly disarranging poor Fin’s dress; but that was forgotten as, with eager haste, the little maiden tried hard to soothe and comfort her.

From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by George Manville Fenn